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2009-07-15net/compat/wext: send different messages to compat tasksJohannes Berg
Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events are multicast netlink messages, and are not independent of pointer size. Thus, currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms cannot properly receive events and fail with all kinds of strange problems, for instance wpa_supplicant never notices disassociations, due to the way the 64-bit event looks (to a 32-bit process), the fact that the address is all zeroes is lost, it thinks instead it is 00:00:00:00:01:00. The same problem existed with the ioctls, until David Miller fixed those some time ago in an heroic effort. A different problem caused by this is that we cannot send the ASSOCREQIE/ASSOCRESPIE events because sending them causes a 32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system to overwrite its internal information, which is worse than it not getting the information at all -- so we currently resort to sending a custom string event that it then parses. This, however, has a severe size limitation we are frequently hitting with modern access points; this limitation would can be lifted after this patch by sending the correct binary, not custom, event. A similar problem apparently happens for some other netlink users on x86_64 with 32-bit tasks due to the alignment for 64-bit quantities. In order to fix these problems, I have implemented a way to send compat messages to tasks. When sending an event, we send the non-compat event data together with a compat event data in skb_shinfo(main_skb)->frag_list. Then, when the event is read from the socket, the netlink code makes sure to pass out only the skb that is compatible with the task. This approach was suggested by David Miller, my original approach required always sending two skbs but that had various small problems. To determine whether compat is needed or not, I have used the MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag, and adjusted the call path for recv and recvfrom to include it, even if those calls do not have a cmsg parameter. I have not solved one small part of the problem, and I don't think it is necessary to: if a 32-bit application uses read() rather than any form of recvmsg() it will still get the wrong (64-bit) event. However, neither do applications actually do this, nor would it be a regression. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15wext: optimise, comment and fix event sendingJohannes Berg
The current function for sending events first allocates the event stream buffer, and then an skb to copy the event stream into. This can be done in one go. Also, the current function leaks kernel data to userspace in a 4 uninitialised bytes, initialise those explicitly. Finally also add a few useful comments, as opposed to the current comments. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-15wireless extensions: make netns awareJohannes Berg
This makes wireless extensions netns aware. The tasklet sending the events is converted to a work struct so that we can rtnl_lock() in it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-12genetlink: make netns awareJohannes Berg
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No generic netlink families except for the controller family are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by one and then set the family->netnsok member to true. A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace, for example when it applies to an object that lives in that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns() to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects that do not have an associated netns). The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast the message in just init_net, which is currently correct for all generic netlink families since they only work in init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all net namespaces because they do not care about the netns at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns aware in some way. After this patch families can easily decide whether or not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many genl families us it for objects not related to networking and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but that will have to be done on a per family basis. Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart problem where network namespaces could be used, genl families and multicast groups are numbered globally and I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces for those families that do not care about netns. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-10cfg80211: disallow configuring unsupported interfacesJohannes Berg
In order to force drivers to advertise their interface types, don't just disallow creating new interfaces with unadvertised types but also disallow setting them UP. Additionally, add some validation on the operations the drivers support. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: clean up naming once and for allJohannes Berg
We've named the registered devices 'drv' sometimes, thinking of "driver", which is not what it is, it's the internal representation of a wiphy, i.e. a device. Let's clean up the naming once and and use 'rdev' aka 'registered device' everywhere. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix lockingJohannes Berg
Over time, a lot of locking issues have crept into the smarts of cfg80211, so e.g. scan completion can race against a new scan, IBSS join can race against leaving an IBSS, etc. Introduce a new per-interface lock that protects most of the per-interface data that we need to keep track of, and sprinkle assertions about that lock everywhere. Some things now need to be offloaded to work structs so that we don't require being able to sleep in functions the drivers call. The exception to that are the MLME callbacks (rx_auth etc.) that currently only mac80211 calls because it was easier to do that there instead of in cfg80211, and future drivers implementing those calls will, if they ever exist, probably need to use a similar scheme like mac80211 anyway... In order to be able to handle _deauth and _disassoc properly, introduce a cookie passed to it that will determine locking requirements. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix MFP bug, sparse warningsJohannes Berg
sparse warns about a number of things, and one of them (use_mfp shadowed variable) actually is a bug, fix all of them. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: properly name driver lockingJohannes Berg
Currently we call that cfg80211_put_dev(), but that is misleading. With the new convention of using 'rdev' for registered_device variables, also call that function cfg80211_unlock_rdev(). Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: warn again on spurious deauthJohannes Berg
The original code in mac80211 could send a deauth frame under certain circumstances even if nothing had ever requested an authentication. This has been fixed with the rework there, so cfg80211 can now warn again about spurious events to catch possible future drivers or mac80211 regressions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: mlme API must be able to sleepJohannes Berg
After the mac80211 mlme cleanup, we can require that the MLME functions in cfg80211 can sleep. This will simplify future work in cfg80211 a lot. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix netdev down problemJohannes Berg
We shouldn't be looking at the ssid_len for non-IBSS, and for IBSS we should also return an error on trying to leave an IBSS while not in or joining an IBSS. This fixes an issue where we wouldn't disconnect() on an interface being taken down since there's no SSID configured this way. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: let SME control reassociation vs. associationJohannes Berg
Since we don't really know that well in the kernel, let's let the SME control whether it wants to use reassociation or not, by allowing it to give the previous BSSID in the associate() parameters. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: check for current_bss from giwrateSamuel Ortiz
When connecting to an ESSID manually, we may not set the BSSID, and thus wdev->wext.connect.bssid will be NULL. wdev->current_bss is always updated when a connection is established so we should check it first. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: fix giwrangeJohannes Berg
"cfg80211: Advertise ciphers via WE according to driver capability" unfortunately broke iwrange -- it used the variable c that needs to be 0 for the channel list. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10nl80211: limit to one pairwise cipher for associate()Johannes Berg
In this case, only one cipher makes sense, unlike for connect() where it may be possible to have the card or driver select. No changes to mac80211 due to the way the structs are laid out -- but the loop in net/mac80211/cfg.c will degrade to just zero or one passes. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: refuse authenticating to same BSSID twiceJohannes Berg
It is possible that there are different BSS structs with the same BSSID, but we cannot authenticate with multiple of them them because we need the BSSID to be unique for deauthenticating/disassociating. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: keep track of BSSesJohannes Berg
In order to avoid problems with BSS structs going away while they're in use, I've long wanted to make cfg80211 keep track of them. Without the SME, that wasn't doable but now that we have the SME we can do this too. It can keep track of up to four separate authentications and one association, regardless of whether it's controlled by the cfg80211 SME or the userspace SME. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: assimilate and export ieee80211_bss_get_ieJohannes Berg
This function from mac80211 seems generally useful, and I will need it in cfg80211 soon. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: reset auth algorithmJohannes Berg
When the interface is brought down, we need to reset the auth algorithm because wpa_supplicant doesn't reset it, and then we fail to use shared key auth when required later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: send events for userspace SMEJohannes Berg
When the userspace SME is in control, we are currently not sending events, but this means that any userspace applications using wext or nl80211 to receive events will not know what's going on unless they can also interpret the nl80211 assoc event. Since we have all the required code, let the SME follow events from the userspace SME, this even means that you will be refused to connect() while the userspace SME is in control and connected. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement get_wireless_statsJohannes Berg
By dropping the noise reporting, we can implement wireless stats in cfg80211. We also make the handler return NULL if we have no information, which is possible thanks to the recent wext change. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement IWRATEJohannes Berg
For now, let's implement that using a very hackish way: simply mirror the wext API in the cfg80211 API. This will have to be changed later when we implement proper bitrate API. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement IWAP for WDSJohannes Berg
This implements siocsiwap/giwap for WDS mode. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: implement iwpowerJohannes Berg
Just on/off and timeout, and with a hacky cfg80211 method until we figure out what we want, though this is probably sufficient as we want to use pm_qos for wifi everywhere. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: managed mode wext compatibilityJohannes Berg
This adds code to make it possible to use the cfg80211 connect() API with wireless extensions, and because the previous patch added emulation of that API with auth() and assoc(), by extension also supports wext on that. At the same time, removes code from mac80211 for wext, but doesn't yet clean up mac80211's mlme code more. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: emulate connect with auth/assocJohannes Berg
This adds code to cfg80211 so that drivers (mac80211 right now) that don't implement connect but rather auth/assoc can still be used with the nl80211 connect command. This will also be necessary for the wext compat code. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: connect/disconnect APISamuel Ortiz
This patch introduces the cfg80211 connect/disconnect API. The goal here is to run the AUTH and ASSOC steps in one call. This is needed for some fullmac cards that run both steps directly from the target, after the host driver sends a connect command. Additionally, all the new crypto parameters for connect() are now also valid for associate() -- although associate requires the IEs to be used, the information can be useful for drivers and should be given. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: introduce nl80211 testmode commandJohannes Berg
This introduces a new NL80211_CMD_TESTMODE for testing and calibration use with nl80211. There's no multiplexing like like iwpriv had, and the command is not available by default, it needs to be explicitly enabled in Kconfig and shouldn't be enabled in most kernels. The command requires a wiphy index or interface index to identify the device to operate on, and the new TESTDATA attribute. There also is API for sending replies to the command, and testmode multicast messages (on a testmode multicast group). I've also updated mac80211 to be able to pass through the command to the driver, since it itself doesn't implement the testmode command. Additionally, to give people an idea of how to use the command, I've added a little code to hwsim that makes use of the new command to set the powersave mode, this is currently done via debugfs and should remain there, and the testmode command only serves as an example of how to use this best -- with nested netlink attributes in the TESTDATA attribute. A hwsim testmode tool can be found at http://git.sipsolutions.net/hwsim.git/. This tool is BSD licensed so people can easily use it as a basis for their own internal fabrication and validation tools. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10wext: constify extra argument to wireless_send_eventJohannes Berg
This is never changed by the function, so can be marked const. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: remove wireless_dev->bssidJohannes Berg
This variable isn't necessary -- the wext code keeps track of the BSSID itself, and otherwise we have current_bss. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: use proper allocation flagsJohannes Berg
Instead of hardcoding GFP_ATOMIC everywhere, add a new function parameter that gets the flags from the caller. Obviously then I need to update all callers (all of them in mac80211), and it turns out that now it's ok to use GFP_KERNEL in almost all places. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10nl80211: clean up function definitionsJohannes Berg
I don't like the 'extern' keyword much when it's not necessary, it makes lines rather long. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: move break statement to correct placeJohannes Berg
Move a break statement to the correct place _after_ the #endif, otherwise w/o WIRELESS_EXT things break badly. Also, while touching this code, do a cleanup and assign dev->ieee80211_ptr to a new variable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10wext: default to yJohannes Berg
The way I initially thought we could do wireless extensions is by making all the compat code in cfg80211 be independent of CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT, but this is turning out to not be feasible. Therefore, fix the Kconfig help text and make the option default to yes, so people won't get a nasty surprise when mac80211 will get rid of its 'select WIRELESS_EXT' any time now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10wext: allow returning NULL statsJohannes Berg
Currently, wext drivers cannot return NULL for stats even though that would make the ioctl return -EOPNOTSUPP because that would mean they are no longer listed in /proc/net/wireless. This patch changes the wext core's behaviour to list them if they have any wireless_handlers, but only show their stats when available, so that drivers can start returning NULL if stats are currently not available, reducing confusion for e.g. IBSS. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: send wext MLME-MICHAELMICFAILURE.indicationJohannes Berg
Instead of having mac80211 do it itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: infer WPA and WPA2 support from TKIP and CCMPDavid Kilroy
Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: set WE encoding size based on available ciphersDavid Kilroy
Only set the sizes for WEP40 and WEP104. Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: allow drivers that can't scan for specific ssidsDavid Kilroy
Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: Advertise ciphers via WE according to driver capabilityDavid Kilroy
Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: prohibit scanning the same channel more than onceJohannes Berg
It isn't very useful to scan the same channel more than once during a given scan, and some hardware (notably iwlwifi) can only scan a limited number of channels at a time. To prevent any overflows, simply disallow scanning any channel multiple times in a given scan command. This is a small change in the userspace ABI, but the only user, wpa_supplicant, never asks for a scan with the same frequency listed twice. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: issue netlink notification when scan startsJohannes Berg
To ease multiple apps working together smoothly, send a notification when a scan is started. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-10cfg80211: pass netdev to change_virtual_intfJohannes Berg
If there was a reason I'm passing the ifidx I cannot remember it any more and don't see one now, so let's just pass the pointer itself. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-07cfg80211: fix refcount leakJohannes Berg
The code in cfg80211's cfg80211_bss_update erroneously grabs a reference to the BSS, which means that it will never be freed. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.29, 2.6.30] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-07Wireless: nl80211, fix lock imbalanceJiri Slaby
Don't forget to unlock cfg80211_mutex in one fail path of nl80211_set_wiphy. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-19cfg80211: validate station settingsJohannes Berg
When I disallowed interfering with stations on non-AP interfaces, I not only forget mesh but also managed interfaces which need this for the authorized flag. Let's actually validate everything properly. This fixes an nl80211 regression introduced by the interfering, under which wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 could not properly connect. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-19cfg80211: allow setting station parameters in meshAndrey Yurovsky
Mesh Point interfaces can also set parameters, for example plink_open is used to manually establish peer links from user-space (currently via iw). Add Mesh Point to the check in nl80211_set_station. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-19cfg80211: allow adding/deleting stations on meshAndrey Yurovsky
Commit b2a151a288 added a check that prevents adding or deleting stations on non-AP interfaces. Adding and deleting stations is supported for Mesh Point interfaces, so add Mesh Point to that check as well. Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10cfg80211: fix rfkill locking problemJohannes Berg
rfkill currently requires a global lock within the rfkill_register() function, and holds that lock over calls to the set_block() methods. This means that we cannot hold a lock around rfkill_register() that we also require in set_block(), directly or indirectly. Fix cfg80211 to register rfkill outside the block locked by its global lock. Much of what cfg80211 does in the locked block doesn't need to be locked anyway. Reported-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>